THE approach to probability adopted in this book is conventional, but cautious. The two definitions, the one a priori, based on equally likely aspects of a system, the second a posteriori, based on ...
Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the most important concept in modern science, especially as nobody has the ...
DR. JEFFREYS implies in his letter in NATURE of September 17 (p. 535) that a prior probability cannot have a frequency interpretation. That there are several usages of the word probability is well ...